Stream of Consciousness & Music Reviews

      Disclaimer: I know absolutely nothing about Led Zeppelin, apart from the small tidbits I picked up while looking up the lyrics for the album. I'm doing this album because a friend requested it. That being said: this sure is rock and roll, huh. I hate to be a contrarian or buzzkill here, but this just isn't "greatest album of all time" levels (as I saw many  people say it was). The music is just ok at best, with one or two exceptions. Most of the songs on here are just the minimum standard for rock. Like, when I think of "generic rock song" this is what comes to mind. It's not inventive or too creative with it's music, and a good amount of the songs follow the same structure complete with nearly identical bridges in some of them. A couple songs might hint towards the album maybe having a more blues-oriented style, namely Rock and Roll and When the Levee Breaks, but every other track shoots down that thought with the aforementioned genericness. A...

      This is not where I expected them to go. A small disclaimer: the only other Black Sabbath album apart from this one that I've heard is their self titled, so I'm jumping from first to fifth here. That said, this is very much not the direction that I thought that they would head. This album is much lighter than their first, with the haunting, heavy feeling that it had being completely vanished. Now, there are more upbeat guitar solos, and even synth solos (which I was pretty surprised and pleased by). Throughout the whole thing, everything just sounds less doom-ful, if that makes sense. The skill of the band is still here in regard to their instruments, if just a tiny bit lesser than what I've heard from them before. The same cannot be said for the lyrics and vocals. I'm so split on the lyrics here. I never really go into the lyrics in these reviews because they usually serve their purpose really well or are, at the very least, passable and just nothing special. Thi...